Eirei Ryu
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs to try and keep the peace. However, Eiko has some sidelines: she's a moneylender to her fellow police officers without charging interest in return for information and is also willing to do the odd side job for those on the criminal side for the money. One day, Kasumi (Riho Takada), who is the daughter of Senma-gumi gang's leader (Toshiyuki Nishida), is found stabbed to death. As this threatens to pit gang against gang, Eiko and the police have to hurry and find her killer.
Riku Ōishi
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that his feudal lord, Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori (Tamayama Tetsuji), had stabbed Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka (Nishida Toshiyuki), the master of ceremonies, at Edo castle. Lord Asano was ordered to commit ritual suicide and the Ako clan abolished. Facing up to the gravity of this unfair ruling, since only one party was being punished instead of both as would be usual, Oishi decides to lead the loyal former retainers in an attack on Lord Kira so that he could take Kira’s head to his lord’s gravesite so that Lord Asano could finally rest in peace.
Oshino
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...
Mrs. Konoe
Spy Sorge cuenta la vida del espía soviético Richard Sorge, cuya infiltración en la embajada alemana de Tokyo proporcionó a Stalin información sobre los planes del Eje durante la década de los 30 y los primeros meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Fuji
Un jornalista en el terremoto de Kobe en 1997 recuerda un viaje que hizo cuando era un niño junto con su familia. En él, navegó desde Awaji hasta Beppy para enterrar las cenizas de su hermano mayor, asesinado en la recién terminada II Guerra Mundial.
The wife of a recently deceased yakuza boss is caught in a conflict between the candidates for his succession and must protect her beloved daughter.
Kiyoko Torigai
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae, who suffers from fatal illness, develops special feelings towards her best friend Kiyoko’s boyfriend Kosuke.
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Kiwa Domoto
Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.
Troupe Leader
Después de un accidente, Tonbo se ve obligado a trabajar fuera del teatro. Es entonces cuando da rienda suelta a su otra pasión, la pintura. Ante la aparición de numerosos grabados bajo el nombre de Sharaku, los mayores pintores de la época se preguntan quién está detrás de estas genialidades.
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its members against much larger, more established organizations.
Abandoned woman bearing a daughter
Ogami Ittō, un samurái que sirve al shogun como "Kogi Kaishaku-nin" (verdugo oficial) es el objetivo de una conspiración clan Yagyu para tomar su trabajo y reemplazarlo con un miembro de su propia familia. Cuando su esposa es asesinada y la evidencia parece demostrar que está conspirando contra el Shogun, el código Bushido requiere que cometa seppuku. En cambio, desafía las órdenes del Shogun y toma las armas con su hijo pequeño contra sus enemigos, convirtiéndose en un asesino para contratar.
Atsumi Nogi
Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.
The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.
Kanae Fujinami
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
Yoshi
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
Taira no Tokiko
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridge, Shanao (later Yoshitsune), a young man of small and fragile stature passed by. He wore a nice sword and played the flute.
Fuyu Segami
A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.
Shizue Kazama (Shinji's mother)
Durante la II Guerra mundial, los bombardeos en las ciudades japonesas provocan el éxodo de gran parte la población, desplazada hacia el medio rural y provocando el encuentro entre ambas comunidades, rural y urbana. Shinji, un niño evacuado desde Tokio, conoce de esta manera a nuevos amigos en el campo.
Kikuno Tatsumura
A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...
Tamaki Awazu
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
Osai
La película se centra en la trágica historia de Gonza, un guapo mujeriego que vive en el período de Tokagawa, momento histórico en el que las apariencias son muy importantes. Gonza compite con Bannojo por el honor de realizar la ceremonia del té con motivo de la celebración del nacimiento del heredero del jefe de su clan.
Kiwa Nakahara
Cuenta lo que le puede pasar a una familia japonesa, cuando uno de sus hijos les avergüenza delante de toda la nación.
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious jobs, illegal schemes, and brutal romances.
Ryoko / Fukashi's mother
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
Yu Nakamura
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Tome Anabuki
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
Self
Documental realizado por Kazuo Inoue acerca de la vida y carrera de Yasujirô Ozu, en el cual participa su asistente Shohei Imamura (director de The Pornographers y The Eel), los críticos Donald Richie y Tadao Sato, y los actores estrellas de sus películas Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada y Haruko Sugimura, entre otros. Un infaltable para los fanáticos de la belleza del cine de este gran maestro.
Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.
Ritsuko Sahara
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
Uta Kiryûin
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Fubuki
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
Oume, Sokichi's wife
La antigua amante de un hombre se presenta un día en casa de éste y de su actual mujer, con sus tres hijos y desaparece, abandonando así a los tres niños. Para ella, es una venganza y una forma de darle una lección a este hombre que considera irresponsable. Esta situación inesperada no le gusta nada a la esposa legítima, que empieza a sentir un odio incontrolable hacia los niños y piensa hacerlos desaparecer del todo...
Chiyo
Un ex samurai abandona su épico modo de vida para convertirse en líder de una pandilla de ladrones.
Orin
Orin es una cantante ciega que se gana la vida en una compañía de músicos ambulantes. Tras ser violada, es expulsada de su compañía por haber perdido la virginidad. Abandonada, a Orin no le queda más remedio que seguir ganándose la vida sola de pueblo en pueblo con sus actuaciones. Durante el camino será presa de personas mezquinas que intentarán aprovecharse de ella, pero también conocerá el amor.
Shrewish Wife
Una bella mujer de ciudad es raptada por un bandido que acaba enamorándose de ella. Tras el secuestro, el bandido tratará de cumplir todos los deseos de su presa, pero los caprichos de la mujer son cada vez más descabellados.
Himiko
Basada en antiguas leyendas japonesas, la película describe la vida de Himiko, emperatriz que gobernó el Antiguo Japón durante el siglo III, y la religiosidad de la sociedad japonesa de esta época.
Ochiyo
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
Basada en una novela de Shintaro Ishihara, se trata de un drama sobre las complejas relaciones entre padres e hijos. Haruo pasa todo su tiempo trabajando en el hospital universitario, cuando se encuentra con una amiga de la infancia. Tienen un romance, y ella le convence para envenenar a su jefe y amante. Por otro lado lado, la madre de Haruo, que lo había abandonado, regresa para recuperar a su hijo perdido.
Film by Deme Masanobu
Kiku
Adaptación de la novela de Shusaku Endo, la película de Shinoda coescrita con Endo, explora el violento conflicto cultural que se produce a la llegada de misioneros jesuitas a Japón en el siglo XVII.
Rika
The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...
En Nonaka
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is released at the age of 44, the power struggles of her clan continue to disturb her life and the man whom she loves.
Minako Nishida
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.
Reiko
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a woman desperately in love.
Yasuko Koiso
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Michitose
La historia se desarrolla durante el período de Mizuno Tadakuni (1793-1851). El Señor Mizuno era un moralista extremo y trató de proscribir cualquier cosa más o menos placentera. Su razonamiento era que cosas como obras teatrales, novelas populares, comidas caras, pinturas, etc ... contribuían a la decadencia de la moral nacional.
Tomi
En la época de decadencia del shogunato de los Tokugawa, el emperador enviaba tropas a los pueblos para liberar a los siervos del Shogun. Gonzo, un soldado que formaba parte de esas tropas, tras llegar a las cercanías de su pueblo, decide adelantarse y hacerse pasar por el capitán para difundir un mensaje. Pero en el pueblo tendrá que lidiar con los comerciantes corruptos y el actual administrador jefe
Yumiko
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets up with her right-hand man: She intends to steal 500 million yen of ill-gotten money from the safe at Nitto Textiles
Koharu and Osan
Adaptación más o menos fiel de la obra de Chikamatsu, preservando todas las convenciones del teatro kabuki y elevando el nivel de artificio con nuevos añadidos: encuadres excéntricos, composiciones hiperestilizadas y un gran uso del blanco y negro. Narra la trágica historia de amor entre una prostituta y un mercader casado.
Ayame
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Chieko Takamura
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
Suzuko Kanze
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money.
Aya, Daigoku's daughter
Un hombre joven regresa a la isla en la que fue torturado cuando era niño. Fue enviado allí para que no revelase la identidad del policía militar que asesinó a su familia. Durante 20 años ha planeado la venganza contra el sádico guardián que torturaba a los castigados en la isla. Una vez allí, conoce a la hija del guardián, que le asegura que su padre ha cambiado por completo.
Shintani Fumio, Hana's daughter
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
Keiko Shima
Taka
Sword of the Beast, del legendario cineasta de esgrima Hideo Gosha, relata la huida del espadachín de bajo nivel Gennosuke, que mata a uno de sus ministros como parte de un plan de reforma. Sus antiguos camaradas luego se vuelven contra él, y esta traición sacude tanto su sentido del honor que decide vivir en la naturaleza, como un animal. Allí se une a un grupo variopinto que extrae ilegalmente el oro del shogun y, con la ayuda de otro espadachín, tiene la oportunidad no solo de sobrevivir, sino también de recuperar su nombre y honor.
Komako
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
Oshino
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
Oren, Kiyokawa's sweetheart
La película cuenta la breve vida de Hachiro Kiyokawa, un ambicioso ronin de finales del siglo XIX japonés. Kiyokawa, un personaje misterioso y experto luchador, se mueve entre las dos facciones enfrentadas (el Shogun y el Emperador) para luchar por sus propios fines.
Tae
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.
Yukiko Tejima
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Female teacher
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.
Kieko Sonobe
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
Noriko Kosaka
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Chieko / Naeko
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.
Noriko Atsugi
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Michiko Hirayama
Shubei Hirayama es un viudo que vive con su hija de veinticuatro años. Sintiéndose viejo y acabado, el hombre se da cuenta de que ella debería vivir su vida y no tener la obligación de cuidarle permanentemente, así que decide casarla. Aunque su hija se resiste a abandonar a su progenitor, finalmente acabará haciéndolo. Shubei buscará en el licor del sake el refugio de la soledad, el consuelo de la angustia.
Miho Tsugumo
Un samurái pide permiso para practicarse el Seppuku (o Harakiri), ceremonia durante la cual se quitará la vida abriéndose el estómago al tiempo que otro samurái lo decapitará. Solicita también poder contar la historia que le ha llevado a tomar tan trágica decisión.
Misa Takahashi
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Kyoko Mishima
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
Chie Higashi
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
Mana Arisaka
Un empresario de la construcción contrata a un grupo de asesinos profesionales para que liquiden a una periodista que está investigando los negocios turbios que se trae entre manos.
Yoshie
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...
Uketuske no josei
Tras la muerte de Miwa, sus mejores amigos deciden hacerse cargo del futuro de su viuda Akiko y de su hija Ayako. Todos creen que la mejor solución es casar a la joven, pero ésta rechaza uno tras otro a todos los candidatos que le presentan; así que deciden casar primero a la viuda.
Ume - Daughter
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Yoko Katsura
En 1960, el impacto político que la revisión del Tratado de Seguridad entre Estados Unidos y Japón causa en la sociedad japonesa hace que Shimojo, un joven despreocupado que vive temerariamente, abandone el movimiento estudiantil y a sus compañeros, y empiece a interesarse en organizaciones terroristas.
